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More than 100 Hampton Roads residents have signed on to head to New York City in the wee hours Sunday to participate in the People's Climate March.

They'll join hundreds of others from Virginia and thousands more from around the country — estimates range from 80,000 to 200,000 — expected to converge at Central Park ahead of Tuesday's United Nations summit on climate change.

Zachary Jarjoura of the Virginia chapter of the Sierra Club said his group has organized two busloads of residents who are concerned about the local effect of rising seas, more intense hurricanes and higher storm surges that climate scientists predict global warming will inflict.

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